Pricing for Internet of Things Service Provider with Cloud Service Provider’s Participation

摘要

This paper introduced CSP to provide data storage for IoT SP. Numerical analysis evaluated how the payoff of IoT SP and CSP changes with cloud service price. IoT SP as a Stackelberg game. CSP is the leader who sets price for cloud storage and IoT SP is the follower, who try to maximize its payoff based on the observed cloud storage price. There may be multiple IoT SPs in the real world. Therefore, in the future, competitions among IoT SPs should be considered. Since there are many applications of IoT platform are installed on DPs’ devices, advertisement fee may become another way for IoT SP to collect revenue. Furthermore, how to get the information of DRs’ ans DPs’ willingness to pay is also very important for pricing DRs and DPs by IoT SP.